“The Writer”
First Bank Nigeria
First Bank Nigeria & The Naked Convos’ Presents Season 3 of the “The Writer” Online Reality Competition
Friday, January 24, 2014Omoba
Stand A Chance To Win $1200
The Writer Competition
is an online ‘reality’ writing competition created by First Bank of Nigeria
Plc. and popular online art and opinion magazine, The Naked Convos
(www.thenakedconvos.com). The competition, now in its third year promises to be
even bigger.
Just like the first
two season, contestants will be given a topic or theme to write on each week
and you, the public, as well as the judges, assess them and vote to keep the
best writers in the competition until one writer is left standing. Over the
last two years, the competition has been exciting and keenly contested across
West Africa but this year, everything changes. The competition is bigger and
better with more evictions every week and more prize money at stake.
The Process
12 Finalists will be
shortlisted from the call for entries submissions. These writers will be
mentored by 3 judges and will contest in 4 rounds of the online writing
competition where three contestants will be evicted weekly.
The competition will
require all writers to send in their themed stories weekly by a fixed deadline.
Posts from contestants will be put up for members of the public to read and
vote on. At the end of the voting period, the panel of judges will evaluate the
stories and score them using pre-communicated criteria.
The public votes from
the audience and the votes from the judges will be combined and based on this;
contestants will be judged and eliminated weekly until a final winner – THE
WRITER – emerges.
Who is it for?
The competition is for
all Africans who love to write. There is no age, nationality or location
restriction. All Africans or people of African origin are encouraged to send in
pre-qualification entries to be considered.
How to enter?
To stand a chance to
qualify for the competition, simply write and send in a flash fiction story
that is not more than 500 words long (It can be less than this but definitely
not more).
The theme for this
year’s entry stories is “The First”.
The first what? That’s
entirely up to you. The first kiss. The first story. The first bite. The first
child. The first car. The first man. The first word. Anything. It can be about
a time or a place or a person or a situation or anything along the continuum.
Be creative. Any Style, direction and format is allowed – the more creative and
well written, the better your chances of qualifying.
Send your entry to
thewriter@thenakedconvos.com on or before midnight, Friday 21st February 2014.
Submissions must be
Flash Fiction stories. Poetry and Opinion pieces will not be accepted.
Only shortlisted
writers will be contacted. Writers will be contacted only by e-mail.
Please include;
-Your full name
-Phone number and,
-A valid e-mail
address
in your submission,
which they will use for continued correspondence, even if it is the same email
address you use to send in the entry. Only one entry is allowed per writer. The
work must be the work of the person whose name is stated in the email.
The Prizes
At the end of The
Writer competition, there will be three winners,
First Place – $1,200
Second Place – $800
Third Place – $600
The schedule
Deadline for
submission of entries is Friday 21st February 2014.
The Judges, sponsors
and 12 Finalists will be announced and The ‘Show’ will begin on Monday 3rd
March 2014.
For more information
about The Writer Competition, visit: www.thenakedconvos.com/thewriter
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